MacBooks and the White Screen of Death
MacBooks (amd MBPros?) have the ability to go to sleep. We all know that. Sometimes, they don’t seem to wake up. Usually a restart will take care of that. But every once in a while, pressing the power button will result in a blank white screen. This is the dreaded White Screen of Death. No spinning pizza wheel, no gear, no nothing. Dead. Finished. Usually means a dead hard drive. Bad news.
Don’t panic!
I’ve not run across this personally, but Derik DeLong has, and he wrote about it in Macworld.com last week.
Derik got the WSoD, and was about ready to replace the drive, but tried something out of desperation… he removed the USB devices (wireless receiver and mouse) he’d plugged in while the MacBook was asleep.
Success!
After disconnecting the USB devices Derik found that the Safe Sleep recovery process started… it seems that MacBooks (and Pros?) don’t respond well to having USB devices plugged in before you wake your machine from a long sleep.
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